Word: spared
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...seminars hold an ill-defined place in the undergraduate curriculum. A first-year seminar is an elective. With fewer than eight electives to spare over four years, many first-years see initial course selection as a "better safe than sorry" prospect and therefore choose to take Core courses that fulfill a requirement. Department chairs and the Core Committee should consider accepting seminars for credit...
...convene in Soros' beach house in Southampton, N.Y., or at his country place in Westchester County. Those residences and a flat in London are the extent of Soros' display of wealth. His lack of interest in clothes, cars and other toys of rich boys is apparent. In his spare time he plays tennis, goes skiing or walks on the beach or does mental weight lifting. Soros says he spends a third of his day "thinking, and trying to clarify my own thinking about where I should be going, and where the world is going. Until recently I didn't feel...
...Demi Moore tormentor in G.I. Jane, is actually a published poet. No sniggering, now. The actor, who speaks Spanish and Danish as well as English, has a new poetry CD called One Less Thing to Worry About. He mines his day job in his verse, which is of the spare, dark, ruminating kind, as in "Edit": "The man you were/ For one short season/ Has been pruned/ Removed/ To a well-groomed graveyard/ That smells like popcorn." Although the acting gig is the breadwinner, "If I could make money on poetry," Mortensen says, "I would still act. When they work...
...YORK: Want more bandwidth? You'll be able to get it soon, if you happen to have a spare $50 million. The federal government is financing university research into a new Internet technology called the gigapop, that will connect at a screaming speed ? 1 million times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop...
...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...